Brake-rigging support.



1 @u ippwN' BRAKE marmi MPJPRT- Arrucmon FILED m6,?, i957.-

, Patented .oet 15, 1918.!

Sidney @Down Wwf@ vide n supporting .means `for horizontallyl UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

SIDNEY e. Down, or BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, nsspreivon To "mn wns'rnvenousn 'Am BRAKE COMPANY, or wILmEmJIN'e, PENNSYLVANIA, n

SYLVANIA.

consonnes or PENN- nnAxE-nreeme surrounspammen mm-Qi mene retentedoctis, 191s.

Appunti@ med August 9, 911; sei-mm. 155,369.

To all 'whom t may concern."V

Be it known that I, SIDNEY G. po'wmN-a citizen of the United States, residing at'4 `to rovideimproved means for supporting bre e levers. 4 l

It` has' heretofore been proposed "to-proarranged brakelevers in whichthelever 'is slidably supported; Besides olering v,fricf tional resistance to movement, the above mentioned construction is more orless noisy in operation, es ecially if the lever,I supportl hes not been' lu ricnted.4

According to my invention, a roller-sup-v port is lprovided for the lever, which -wlll operate' easily even if lubrication is4 neg-- lected and in which the rictionel .resistance In the accompenying drevving; Figurel is n plan 'viewf of gy brake'. lever in applcstion position Vshovvi ng" ;the improved supporting means associated :therewith 1Fig. 2

a, similar-view, showing the brake ever in As 'shown in the drawing, the reference numeral 1 indicates' a horizontally arranged brake lever and ,for supporting same, a rod 2 is secured to adjacent cross -sills 3 of the car. Secured to the end of the lever-1, which is to be slpported, are standards. 4 in which e rod 'forming the bearing snpis mounte Copies of thil pntexxltrziu-eiy be Yoliteinedl for release position; andFig. -3'a side elevation',

or't fora roller 6 having a concavel bearing ace `adapted to engage the supporting rod 2. When the'brakee are the parts vere 1n the .positions shown in Fig.` '2 of the AdraAlvin'g `and upon applying the brakes, the lever 1 moves -tothe position shown in Fig. 1 of the drawin ,andduring along the bearing lrod 54 to allow." for the angular movement of.` the `brake, lever, the

rollerbein held to the 4rod- 2 by the flanges A thereon an the 4oonceve.shel'ae of its bearlng ,surfaoe, p p f- In'the release movement, the roller rolls onthe rod 2 back to 4the release ,Iglostony 'this movement, the roller 6 ro ls along `the i f .r'od 2fand at-the same time, the'roller slides Having novv described my invention, what I ters Patent is:

1. The combination with `ebreke lever, of 4 n supporting lmember carriedbythe car, 'a

rollermountedfonsaid member, and4 a rod securedto said lever upon lwhich"fsidroller isrotatably mounted. The combination -witha iis slidably and rotatably'mounted'.

The combinationj with, e, brake lever concave bearing-fece' adapted toengage the rod to facilitate angular movement of the In testimony whereofA lhavehereunto. set

brakeleven I my hand."

brake lever, of -a supporting membercarriedby they car, a roller mountedf'on -said member,` and a'rodl l secured to said lever upon` which said roller 1o having an `angular movemenf arod, endl. e roller mounted on the lever' end havingn 

